22 Sep What the property industry needs to understand about placemaking
With millions of new homes to be built it's easy to focus on the 'units' needed rather the sense of place and neighbourhood being created.The same can be said about...
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Place talking points
Our founder, Diane Cunningham, discusses issues affecting high streets, markets, town centres and small businesses. We love exploring new places and revisiting old ones to see the changes.
Here, you can find interviews with clients and colleagues, events and research, alongside observations from what we have learnt on projects and when out and about.
11 Sep Can meanwhile save nightlife?
Despite the London tube strike, many people made it via boat, bike and Overground, to Roca London Gallery where our director, Diane was taking part in a talk on meanwhile...
12 Aug A whistle stop tour of Barking and Dagenham regen projects
Our director, Diane, returned to Barking and Dagenham in East London six years after working on a 10-year vision for the town centre.It was fantastic to see how much development...
22 Jul How many reports does it take to revitalise a place?
As funding for places changes with major schemes ending in the past 12 months and the replacement for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund unknown, we have been thinking about how...
07 Jul Discovering Liverpool’s Baltic neighbourhood
As part of the Placed Better Together conference (write-up), there was a fringe event in Liverpool where Real Worth and Baltic Creative CIC hosted a walk around the district. Social...
01 Jul Better Places Together – Rethinking engagement and social value
June saw the launch of north-west based social enterprise, PLACED's first conference titled Better Places Together focused on social value and engagement in place projects.The event posed questions on rethinking...